Online poker works exactly the same was as if you get together with some friends around a table in your living room. The only difference is, that instead of actually being together in the same room, the game takes place on your computer.
This means, that people from all over the world can play each other without ever having to leave their own house.
The tables you play only exist in cyberspace, as the actual poker game itself takes place on huge servers located at the various online poker rooms, and it's these servers you log onto from your computer to play. This is often referred to as a "poker network".
Logged onto a poker network you can – with just your mouse and keyboard – chat and play with people from all over the world. The tables, cards, chips and everything else are displayed on your screen as well as the chat, where you can write messages to the other players and read their messages.
All you have to do to participate is download and install a small program from the poker room – just like you'd download and install a program from any other software provider.
This program called a poker client controls your online connection to the poker room and also the graphics displayed on your screen.
Some poker rooms have their very own poker network, where only players registered to that particular poker room meet to play and chat. These poker rooms are for the most part the biggest ones on the market with loads of players – e.g. poker rooms like Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars.
Smaller poker rooms with fewer registered players usually join forces and share a poker network. This has huge advantages for the players of these smaller poker rooms, as a shared poker network allows for more opponents and games to choose from.
Examples of poker networks where numerous poker rooms all provide access are the B2B-network and the MicroGaming-network (also known as the Prima Network), where most of the European bookmakers, big as small, have their poker players play.
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